MONKS SNOWED IN.
A solid wall of snow, nearly 15ft high, surrounded \he Hospice of the Grand St. Bernard, in which the monks and a few visitors were kept prisoners during the middle of last month. During March the number of avalanches and tho heavy snowfall exceeded anything experienced in the pass for fifty years. Telegraph and telephone wires are lying in the snowdrifts, and all communication with the valleys on both tho Swiss and Italian sides is interrupted. An avalanche entered the Hospice itself through some of the upper windows, but fortunately nobody waß seriously injured. The St. Bernard dogs did extra sentry duty, patrolling cach^side of the pass day and night for lost travellers. There is usually kept sufficient food ari<l think to eiimd v. "«nuw alq^" of Several ffiaßi&fi.ftti &S &»§fit.am ', , * ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 127, 30 May 1914, Page 10
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134MONKS SNOWED IN. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 127, 30 May 1914, Page 10
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